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The Good News: Journey of the Unbound

by Michael Stephenson

The paper had been written, the word declared, yet still, some did not know of its power. On January 1, 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect as law across America. Words that forever changed the nation and freed all men, women, and children from bondage. Unfortunately, not everyone honors such a declaration. Some seek to bury these life-altering words at all costs, keeping under heel anyone foolish enough to claim such power, threatening to undo them by sword or bullet. But t... more

The Flaws of Gravity

by Stephanie Caye

Faeries lie.

That’s what the Consilium told Jude when they recruited her into a supernatural cold war against the Court. It’s what her friend Aubrie said too, convincing her to search for illicit magic under their noses.

But he’s half-Faerie like her. And since honesty’s never exactly been Jude’s strong suit either, she probably should have listened. Might have saved her the pain of his betrayal, not to mention a trip to the ICU.

When a... more

The Hallowed - Part I

by Annaliese Plowright

'...a delicious creepiness and undercurrent of tension, lightened by Plowright's delightfully colorful characters.' Goodreads Reviewer 'Wickedly hint of sexual tension' Goodreads Reviewer From the author of the popular fantasy romance series The One Saga and YA novel Bleeding Hearts... The Hallowed The small North Carolina town of Strangeways is in the grip of a vicious serial killer. Cherry Stokes is convinced she knows who's behind the murders, sinister newcomer, Nicolas Newton. W... more

The Chambermaid

by Marcus Aurelio

How does a young man learn to deal with being victim to a silver bullet from another pretty jaded lass? This is the journey of his descent to rock bottom as he is relegated to the mental asylum where he further endures, relating to his experience of learning to live with himself in his new surroundings. He meets many curious characters in this journey and finds himself a victim again to the shiny silver bullets that land on him-shot from another jaded lass. Those silver bullets are always threat... more

Avenger

by Blair C. Howard

Five years after physicist Mark Holder discovered the Slipstream Drive in 2058, humanity reached for the stars and began to colonize the galaxy. For centuries, humans continued to populate system after system without encountering intelligent alien life.

Some twelve hundred years later, after many generations of relative peace, in the year 3278, human space is invaded by a powerful and mysterious enemy. To these invaders the very concept of free will is heresy. Their crusade—to era... more

The Hatchling

by Vyria Durav

Sarric dreamed of dragons all his life; such flights of fancy captured his imagination at a young age and sustained him through the cruelty of the hunters that ruled the isolated mountain town of Rivermist. One day, a real dragon appears before him, dazzling him with her beauty and an answer to the unease that's afflicted him for as long as he remembers. He's eager to take what she offers--but the greedy hunters, driven by tales of treasure hoards, will do everything in their power to destroy he... more

Proxy

by Gary Gibson

When the ex-wife of Ray Thomas' sworn enemy hires him to find her daughter, the investigator learns there's more to the illegal implant technology known as Proxy than mind-swapping - and what he finds could affect the course of civilisation.

Echogenesis

by Gary Gibson

An alien world teeming with deadly life. And fifteen strangers with no memory of how they came to be there. From the moment Sam Newman and fourteen others awaken inside metal coffins next to the burning wreckage of a spacecraft, they face a constant struggle to stay alive on a seemingly uninhabited planet light-years from home. Worse, the last any of them remember, they were back home on Earth - at a time when interstellar travel was little more than a distant pipe dream. Survival means... more

Alex & Gwen: Moon-Crossed Lovers Part 1

by Georgia Luse

Alex is a Were wolf. Gwen is a vampire. How will their romance survive the machinations of the vampire court?

The Gathering

by R. Virgil Walsh

‘Lazarus’ Kail begins his day trekking through hostile lands. He has 600+ years of sorrow, anger, and despair fueling his desire to return to his haven, tucked away from evil reach of the immortal emperor, Gideon I.

The journey was not easy coming back into the Hartisian Empire. Despite his best efforts, he finds himself again on the run, and an unwilling participant in the prophetic vision of the Old Man.

The Prophecy tells of Seven souls born into the world that will... more

Vampiro: Volume I: the Night Crawler Protocol

by Don W. Hill M.D.

When the most recent outbreak of human vampirism occurred in the narrow oasis of New Mexico's lower Rio Grande Valley, the terrifying oral tradition that had been passed on for more than four centuries had yet again been sadly reconfirmed. Every two decades or so, one or more bloodthirsty ghouls would appear that would prey upon the unsuspecting and completely vulnerable members of New Mexico's small but harmonious and tightly knit community that had long been an admixture of First American,... more

Legends of Andolin: Adella of the Campos

by A. M. Portman

A WOMAN IN A DESPERATE SEARCH

Adella's life had been peaceful on the frontier of Valenna. But when mysterious raiders attack and burn her town down, her brother goes missing. Leaving everything behind, she sets off in a desperate ride across the plains to find him.

A MERCENARY IN DIRE NEED OF HER HELP

Kol, a highly-skilled Sornian soldier, needs Adella's help if he wants to live to see another day. A traitor to his country with nowhere else to turn, he agrees to guide Adella... more

In a Black Tapestry

by Daryl K. Hill

In an old place of worship, there hangs a tapestry of dark portent. In its cloth are stitched the histories, the lineage of a town on the marches between the merchant burgs and the untamed pagan wilderness – stories of ogres, and Wends; of strange creatures sewn in spidery black thread, and stunted men who hide beneath the ground; and the cursed blue-ringed eye, the ruin of all. But all that is legend and folly, is it not? When Aivars and his hex-anointed brothers of the Greysworn are c... more

The Heartbeat of a Million Dreams

by Halo Scot

Mars has a shadow, a mirror world torn from the chaos of an eons-old rivalry between gods and titans. An elite few protect this secret to preserve the peace. But when a girl comes along with the power to reunite Mars, worlds collide in cosmic war.

Eyes of the Eternal

by G.E. White

A GOD MAY LIVE FOREVER BUT DIES A THOUSAND TIMES... After Quinn is sent to a mental health facility, he is plagued by visions of fae-like creatures and a handsome, but deadly visitor only he can see. Just when he is about to give into his despair, believing that he is truly losing his mind, Surina, a mysterious woman visits him with a revelation that turns his world upside down. What he believes to be hallucinations are actually the remnants of an old world long forgotten. She inducts hi... more

Weaver

by Tish Thawer

He walked out of my dream, identifying himself only as the Weaver. In a black cloak, with eyes like stars, there was a shimmer to the way he moved. He was beautiful … Ethereal. And I was going to make him mine. **** Alone for most of her life, Milly is determined to make the man of her dreams a reality. Using her hereditary magic, she sets out on a lifelong quest, entering a world of shadows and secrets. Little does she know, to possess his heart, she’ll have to give away her own … for the onl... more

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